Articles about Independent Television Authority

Inside the 20-year battle for a fourth channel

The government has announced it plans to start commercial radio in the UK

Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House

A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network

Part Ten: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

Part Six: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

Comparative maps of VHF and UHF coverage from the Independent Television Authority

ITV is here. Will it kill the cinema?

The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966

Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about

It’s time for a fourth channel in the UK. But no more than that, please

Grampian is almost here! Find out how to tune in, what to watch and who’s behind the new programmes

It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…

The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born

Big promises from Tyne Tees Television in 1958 as they get ready to launch

The government gives the go-ahead for Independent Local Radio in 1971

Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?

The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967

The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964

The Belfast Telegraph reports on the opening of Ulster Television

It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved

The Daily Telegraph has a plan for ITV in 1971: tear it up and start again. It’s nonsense and we’ll tell you why

Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969

A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971

The British cabinet discusses what ITV should be showing on Sunday afternoons in 1955

Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967

The Independent Television Authority took on new powers in 1964. The TVTimes in February 1965 explains what these are and how the ITA is structured

The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried

An introduction to the ITV transmitter network in 1966

An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966

An introduction to our analysis of a week on Southern Television in our new subsite Zenith

An introduction to television for Wales in 1966 / Cyflwyniad i deledu yng Nghymru yn 1966

An introduction to television advertising rules in 1966

An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966

An introduction to Independent Television in 1966

How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988

The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967

A simplified guide to how the pictures get from the studio to the transmitter to your home from 1966

ABC producer Penry Jones in 1964 on why religious programmes on ITV are popular

CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive

Granada Television starts the day on the evening of its new 7-day contract

Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV

The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years

Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959

Instructions for transmitter staff in the event of screens going blank